Charlotte Nicely is a graduate student working on her master’s in History with a focus on genocide and the Holocaust at the College of Charleston where she also completed her undergraduate degrees in history and psychology. Currently, she is working as a teaching assistant under Dr. Gibbs for his undergraduate classes on the Holocaust as well as  a current Public History Intern with the Pink Triangle Legacies Project. Following the completion of her MA in 2026 she hopes to earn a PhD in Holocaust history.

Charlotte has worked on a number of research projects relating to the role of propaganda in the Holocaust and LGBTQ people before and after the Holocaust, including her senior thesis “The Third Sex Before the Third Reich: A Glimpse at Trans Erasure from the Weimar Era Gay Rights Movement.”